The 2022 East Lothian Council election took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 5 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 18 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Scottish Labour retained control of the council, whilst the Scottish Greens won their first ever seat in East Lothian.

Results

Source:

Note: Votes are the sum of first preference votes across all council wards. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 4 May 2017. This is because STV has an element of proportionality which is not present unless multiple seats are being elected. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at the dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Ward summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward !% !Cllrs !% !Cllrs !% !Cllrs !% !Cllrs !% !Cllrs !% !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" |SNP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" |Lab !colspan=2 bgcolor=""|Conservative !colspan=2 bgcolor="" |Green !colspan=2 bgcolor="" |Lib Dem !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"|Others |- |align="left"|Musselburgh |bgcolor="" |34.33 |bgcolor="" |1 |31.04 |2 |14.73 |0 |13.47 |1 |4.24 |0 |2.21 |0 |4 |- |align="left"|Preston, Seton and Gosford |29.78 |1 |bgcolor="" |39.67 |bgcolor="" |2 |20.46 |1 |5.78 |0 |3.29 |0 |1.02 |0 |4 |- |align="left"|Tranent/Wallyford/Macmerry |32.97 |2 |bgcolor="" |45.57 |bgcolor="" |2 |13.44 |0 |4.09 |0 |2.12 |0 |1.80 |0 |4 |- |align="left"|North Berwick Coastal |19.86 |1 |21.12 |1 |bgcolor="" |38.97 |bgcolor="" |1 |13.16 |0 |6.21 |0 |0.69 |0 |3 |- |align="left"|Haddington and Lammermuir |26.19 |1 |bgcolor="" |36.44 |bgcolor="" |2 |21.89 |1 |7.37 |0 |5.52 |0 |2.59 |0 |4 |- |align="left"|Dunbar and East Linton |bgcolor="" |26.78 |bgcolor="" |1 |25.25 |1 |21.45 |1 |15.13 |0 |10.13 |0 |1.26 |0 |3

Ward results

Musselburgh

Preston Seton and Gosford

Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry

North Berwick Coastal

Haddington and Lammermuir

Dunbar and East Linton

See also East Lothian Council elections

References